Thursday, December 5, 2019

"Wanted"

Julia texted Ethan and I from swim practice the other night, after she and Madeleine had gotten a ride to the Y.

JULIA: We're at swim.  There's a Wanted poster and I'm freaking out.
ETHAN: Wanted?  Like, for a criminal?

I was trying to figure out why the YMCA in our little suburb would have posted a Wanted sign, and especially why I hadn't seen other similar signs around town.  If there really was a dangerous criminal afoot, wouldn't one expect to find posters in more than the one location?

It turns out my little Einstein didn't bother to actually read the poster, nor even to look at it very carefully. 

The poster is a "mug shot" of the Y director.  The ID number she's holding is our town's zip code.  Underneath her picture it says:
"She has been on the run since learning that the C.R. YMCA is in second place in the Greater Boston YMCA Giving Tuesday Challenge."

On Instagram, the Y even posted a picture of the director "behind bars," saying they needed to raise $25 more in order to let her go free on bail. 

And this is the reason why Julia was freaking out at practice over the thought that a criminal was going to bust into the Y.  I raised a genius, folks.

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